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"One of the leaders."

"Especially strong in Private Equity."

"Solid strategy house, some very good people."

About Bain & Company Europe

Founded in 1973, Bain is one of the world's most prestigious
consulting firms. Today Bain & Company is one of the world's
most respected companies. It partners with clients in sectors
representing 90% of the global economy with offices covering 97% of
the world's GDP.

The firm's 6,000+ employees help the world's top business
leaders make the big decisions that will direct their
organizations' futures, and then help them realize those strategies
- marketing, operations, organization, technology, mergers and
acquisitions and sustainability.

Bain has worked with more than two-thirds of the Global 500,
thousands of notable regional and local organizations, hundreds of
non-profits, governments and private equity funds representing 75
percent of global equity capital. With 53 offices in 34 countries,
Bain experts work across every economic and industry sector, from
media to healthcare to alternative energy. While the firm's client
list is a closely guarded secret, word has leaked about some of its
clients, including such prestigious names as De Beers, Dell, Ford,
Charles Schwab, Starbucks, Del Monte, KIPP and Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation.

That global reach also translates into plenty of international
experience for Bain's people. The firm reports that over half
of their consultants had the opportunity to work internationally
last year and their career aspirations are expertly tailored via
Bain's unique home staffing model.

Impactful, supportive and unparalleled future career
opportunities

When people join Bain theymake an impact from day one - within
their teams, clients, personal development and the creative
solutions they'll bring. The support they'll receive via global
training, from their teammates, mentors and staffing manager will
be second to none. And a career at Bain will set them on an
unparalleled path for future success - whether at Bain or within
the ranks of their impressive global alumni network.

Measurable results

Bain touts a more practical approach to client engagements than
some of its rivals-and it backs those claims up by measuring the
results. According to the firm (and attested to by calculations
from PricewaterhouseCoopers), its clients' stock prices outperform
the market by four to one. Other eye-opening stats from the firm
include claims that: Bain's sales and marketing cases deliver on
average more than 25 percent revenue growth; Bain-supported merger
integrations on average generate 20 percent higher excess
shareholder returns; and 85 percent of Bain's performance
improvement work produces yields worth more than ten times the fees
charged for the work.

Bain states that delivering results is at its core, and as such,
its distinctive Results Delivery® foundation is embedded into every
Bain engagement. This approach focuses on predicting, measuring and
managing risk associated with a change from day one which helps
clients realize results more consistently and predictably than
their competitors.

Further evidence of the firm's confidence in its ability to
produce results can be found in the practice of "tied
economics"-something that Bain pioneered. To ensure alignment
between a client's goals and the firm's work, Bain often takes
equity in lieu of fees-which means that Bain is only successful
when its clients are successful. Today, Bain indicates that almost
half of its global revenue comes from clients where they have some
at-risk work in place.

An entrepreneurial spirit

Bain has fostered its entrepreneurial culture since its
founding, when a handful of consultants left one of its competitors
to build a new firm founded on the innovative principle of
"results, not reports." At the time, Bain's approach was unique in
the market-no other major players were attempting to differentiate
in that way. That culture, and the transferable skills Bain
consultants develop, is clearly a great benefit for those
interested in pursuing their own businesses - in fact, many Bain
alumni go on to be successful entrepreneurs, often after only two
or three years of Bain experience. As Bain alum and founder of
Pencils of Promise, Adam Braun, said, "If I wanted to start a great
nonprofit, it couldn't be run by passion alone. It needed to be run
with the same level of diligence, structure and commitment to
results that the best for-profits are run with. The best place for
me to learn that was working at Bain."

Private equity leader

Bain was the first consulting firm to work with private equity
firms, and since then it has worked on half of the largest buyout
deals in the last decade. The firm's practice provides fund
strategy, sector screening and deal generation, due diligence,
portfolio company performance improvement and exit planning for
clients. Having carved quite a niche for itself in this area, the
firm claims that its private equitypractice today is over three
times larger than that of the next-largest consulting firm serving
private equity funds. that of the next-largest consulting firm
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firm serving private equity funds.

Transformative social impact

Bain employees apply the skills they use in the for-profit
sector to address some of the world's most pressing social issues,
with a focus on education, economic development and the
environment. Bain partners with some of the most innovative and
high-impact organizations toward two shared goals: improving the
futures of underserved children and youth, and fostering inclusive
and sustainable economic growth. The firm is also committed to
helping its corporate clients embed sustainability into their own
businesses, and leads by example; Bain has been proudly certified
CarbonNeutral® across its global operations since 2012.

Bain Social Impact is coordinated through a Global Social &
Public Sector practice, as well as local Social Impact chapters in
each of its offices. This provides a balance of formal, pro bono
casework alongside a grassroots infrastructure that enables its
employees to further enhance their personal impact - through
volunteering, fundraising and a global externship program - on
causes that are most important to them. The firm also maintains a
close partnership with The Bridgespan Group, a leading non-profit
consulting firm incubated by Bain in 2000, including collaboration
on industry insights, joint case teams, shared training and
cross-office transfers.

Bain has recently announced plans to invest $1 Billion in pro
bono consulting by 2025 to create transformative social
impact.

Business Insider profiles Russ Hagey, Danny Hong and Som Sowani
who describe Bain's Culture and what it means to be a Best Place to
Work.
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May 2017

Bain, LinkedIn Partner to Help Get More Women to the Top
in Business

Bain & Company partnered with LinkedIn to identify the ways
to support women in their aspirations in business.
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June 2017

How A Top Management Consulting Firm Is Helping Social
Enterprises Thrive

The CEO of RootCapital sits down to talk with Vikki Tam, a
partner at Bain & Company and head of its Social Impact
practice, to learn more about how Bain approaches social impact and
the trends she sees across Bain's social-sector clients.
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April 2016

What makes Bain an attractive company to work
for?

Keith Bevans, partner and head of global consulting recruiting,
talks about Bain's unique combination of client impact and
supportive work environment.
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